Spring feels like it’s on its way. There has been some mixed weather, grey and windy. For the 3rd time this year we have had to shore-up the laburnum tree again. I hope it survives all the root sway. The mild weather has brought out some blooms, and the frogs. Here’s my early spring #SixOnSaturday.

The frogs, wow, they are going for it this year. We’ve had frog-spawn for a few days now, I’ve counted at least 20 charging about at any one time. A wildlife extravaganza, and just a few steps from the back door. I think I might have caught a pair in the process of delivering the frogspawn.

Some of the winter flowers are still going strong, pieris has been flowering for man weeks now.

And hellebore are nodding away gently in the breeze.

I’m so pleased I planted lots of the tiny winter iris in pots. They look stunning on a sunny morning.

And the newcomers are arriving for spring. A little spray of tete-a-tete mini narcissi are brightening up the courtyard windowsill.

Sheltering from wind and rain in the green house, I love my couple of pots of species tulip. These are tulipa Turkmenistan.

With the frogs serenading my attempts to start a bit of gardening, spring is here now, and I don’t want to miss a moment of it. Thanks to those leaving comments on the blog – sorry if I don’t always get back to you on time! The blog is going well, but it would be great if more folk on Mastodon, or other parts of the Fediverse got into tooting a Six! Go on, it’s a much kinder form of social media, not controlled by crazy billionaires. All you need to do is find 6 things in your garden to show us. Then post on social, or add a link at Jim’s blog below. For regulars, our organiser is Jim at https://gardenruminations.co.uk/. And I’m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot